Coat and garment hanger



March-8. 1938. GA G, KEELER COAT AND GARMENT HANGER rFiled Jan. e, 193e Patented Mar. 8, 1938 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COAT ANDGARMENT HANGER Georgina G. Keeler, Chicago, Ill.

Application January 6, 1936, Serial No. 57,718

' 1 claim. (ci. 211-182) 'Ihis invention relates to coat and garment portion 21 which has an extension stud 28 similar hangers and more especially to such hangers to extension stud 25 and is likewise provided with adapted to be readily disassembled and stored in a radial pin 29. Similarly, the righthand base a small space. element has a T-shaped tubular supporting mem- An object of my invention is to provide a 'ber 30 provided witha horizontal tubular exten- 5 simple, practical, and inexpensive hat and garsion 3l, there being a double L-shaped slot 32 ment rack. j" therein. I show a number of identical frame Another object is to provide a hat and garelements 33, each having at one en d thereof a ment rack adjustable as to size and readily movbore 34 which is provided with a double L-shaped vable from place to place. slot 35 and at the opposite end a stud portion 36 10 Another object is to provide a' hat and garment of reduced diameter and a radially extending pin rack which may be quickly and easily assembled 3 1. The tubular members 33 are adapted to be and disassembled. interconnected, the stud portion 36 being adapted Another object is toprovide a hat and garment to be received into the slot 34 of the adjacent rack whichmay be readily packed and stored in frame element, pin 31 being adapted to passinto '15 a fraction of the space required when fully as-y the L-shaped slot 35, as shown in Fig. 3, forming sembled. j a locking connection. A number of members 33 Other objects and advantages will appear and are utilized to form an interconnecting member be brought out more fullyfrom the following between lefthaud tubular supporting member 23 specification, reference'being ,had to the accomand righthand tubular supporting member 30, the

panying drawing, wherein: stud 28 of member 23 with its locking pin and 'n Fig. l is a. perspective view of a.- preferred the tubular member 3|, together with slot 32 of embodiment'of my invention; the righthand tubular supporting member 30,

Fig. 2 is a condensed front view on an enlarged forming the end connections. Whenv the asview.of.the same; l. sembly has been made as indicated, the horizontal 25 Fig. v3 is a further enlarged view showing one frame member is substantially rigid, the ele- -of the structural elements of the rack;' ments being interlocked and securedto each Fig. 4 is' a partial sectional View of one of the other. In a similar manner anumber of frame base elements taken along the line 4--4 of Fig. 2; elements 33 Iare used to form the upright or 30 Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line 4 standard members, the elements 33 being interso 5 5 of Fig. 1, showing a somewhat modiiied form tted to each other, the lowermost of which is of structural element ;v secured to the stud member 25 and the uppermost Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a element 33 forming a similar intertting conmodied form of rack; nection with the lefthand T-shaped cap member Fig. 7 is a top view of a coat or garment hanger; 38, which cap member has a downwardly extend- 35 Fig. 8 is a side view in central section of the ing vertical tubular portion 39 adapted to receive same; the stud portion 36 of the uppermost element 33 Fig. 9 is a. side View of the same in folded posiand being provided with a slot 40 to engage pin tion; 31. The member 33 is further provided with a 40 Fig. 10 is an elevation viewl of the basenelement horizontally extending portion 4l, which in turn `m of Fig. 4, showing the mode of connection with isprovided with a locking pin 43. I also show the the structural elements; and member 3B having an upwardly extending por- Fig. 11 is a view similar to Fig. 10, showing th tion 44 adapted for connection with additional other base element'. y f frame members if desired; butin the present il- Referring more particularly to the drawing, I lustration they are not shown, it being underw show a hat and garment rack having a pair of stood that such additional frame members may base element members 20 having rollers 2l and be joined if-desired. Similarly, a righthand cap a threaded bore 22, the lefthand base member member 45 is shown having a horizontal tubular having a T-shaped tubular supporting member extension 46 provided with a slot 41 adapted to 23 having threads 24 to engage the threaded/bore receive a stud 36 and pin 31. of the frame member 50 22 and a vertical extension stud 25 of less diame- 33, a number of such frame members being ter than the remainder of the supporting element utilized to form the upper horizontal cross mem- 23, extension stud 25 being provided with a radiber upon which the garments may be hung as ally extending pin 26. The tubular support 23 is hereinafter more fully described. further provided with a horizontally extending Referring to Fig. 6, I show asomewhat modied form of the hanger just described, wherein a lfthand base member 43 is formed lintegrally of a pair oi vertical members 49 and a cross member 50, the usual rollers or casters I also being shown. Similar to base 20, the base member 48 is provided with extensionr 25, pin 26, horizonial portion 21, stud 28, and similarly the righthand base memberr52 of similar construction tomember 49.is provided Wltha horizontal tubular extension 3|, s'lot 32, vertical stud 25, and pin 26 for connection with frame elements 33.

In the modi-fied form I show a U-shaped top element 53 corresponding to element'38 of Fig. 1 and having similarly a vertical tube portion 39, slot 40, horizontal extension 4i, stud 42, and pin 43 for connection with horizontal cross members 33, frame elements 33 comprising a cross member. A spacing member 54 is integrally formed with tubular member 53, and a righthand top U-shaped member 56 similarly has a space member 54 and is similarly provided with 'a tubular portion 39 and horizontal tubular member 46, each provided -with a double L-shaped slot 40 and 41 respectively. A pair of brackets 55 are integrally formed with members 53 and 5 6 which may be utilized to provide a support for a shelf upon whichhats, gloves, rubbers, or other articles of apparel maybe placed if desired.

From an linspection of,Figs. l 2, andi-, and the foregoing'k description, 'itwill be apparent that a substantially rigid .frame may .be constructed, and one vwhich'vrnaylihave variousnsize's and'which may be vvaried insize, both vertically and horizontally as necessity or preference may dictate.

1t will be apparent that bythe `simple linterconnection and locking features, the entire frame may be-.quicklydisassembled andreassembled at will. VVVIt.,will be further apparent that the constituent elements may be [readily wrapped or packed together in a veryrcompact space with respect tothe size of `thestructure when completely assembled.v

In Fig. 1 I further shcwa modied form of frame element y51, the end features of which are similar'to those of frame elements 33 but having in addition a pair of circular recesses 53, each adapted to receive a pinor spindle 59 Yespecially adapted forthe hanging .of a hat or the like, it being understood that one or more elements 51 may be utilized in place of some ofthe elements 33 for this purpose.

Referring to Figs. 1, 7, 8, and 9I also show a folding coat or garment hanger 60, each hanger having a central supporting member 6i provided with a hook 62 and a pair of slots 63, each slot having an abutment 64, a pair of arms 55 being pivotally connected at 66 to the member 60, and each having an abutment 31 adapted to engage with abutment 64 to dene the hanger as shown in Fig. 8. The arms 65 are adapted tobe folded back as shown in Fig. 9 to reduce the space occupied by the hanger when disassembled with the frame members 33.

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In practice it will usually be found that there i them together and to the base members 23, 30, 43, l

and 52.

While I have illustrated and. described the preferred form of construction for carryingmy invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modiilcation without departing fromthe spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself o f such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what` `I claim as newvand desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A variable dimension garment hanger as described comprising a plurality of base and cap members, and lateral and upright frame members secured between pairs of said base and cap members, said frame members each consisting of a plurality of relatively short unit elements all substantially identical and having intertting plug and socket end portions, said sockets each having a locking slot, said plugs each having a locking pin cooperable with said slots, said base and cap members having similar plug and socket portions, whereby the size of said hanger as a of pairs of said unit members.

GEORGINA( G. KEELER.

.Whole may be varied by the addition or removal 

